David Vinyard left Missouri State University in 2008 and immediately began work on his PhD at Princeton University. He was awarded the Stanley A. Lefkowitz *70 Fellowship, for a top first-year chemistry graduate student. David also was selected for a 2009 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. This prestigious fellowship with keen competition nationwide pays tuition and a stipend for three years. David works with Dr. G. Charles Dismukes’s research group and studies photosynthetic water splitting using Fast Repetition Rate Fluorescence (FRRF).

Other 2009 CNAS graduates will be beginning their graduate programs at University of Delaware (Tom Mangan), North-western University (Jeff Doak), State University of New York – Buffalo (Jonathan Hardin), State University of New York – Stony Brook (Ayan Bhattacharya), Emory University (Josh Alford), University of Illinois (Christy Gonder), University of Missouri – Columbia (Courtney Coleman, Ndubuisi Ukah, Justin Tiffany and Luke Hagemann), South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (Raju Ankireddy and Swathi Vunnam), Indiana University – Bloomington (Abhijit Ghosh), Yale University (Cat Shoults), Portland State University (Kat Barnard), and University of Kansas (Michael Robbins).